PANJIM: Slamming the State government for granting extension in service to its retiring employees, RTI activist Sudip Tamankar on Friday said that he will challenge the Cabinet decision giving extension to PWD principal chief engineer Uttam Parsekar.
Tamankar said that he had already filed a complaint before the Chief Secretary opposing the Cabinet decision giving extension in service to Parsekar, who had retired on attaining the age of superannuation.
He said that as per the Constitution, the government cannot grant extension to its retiring servants except to certain category of servants only. He said that as per Article 13 (2) of Constitution of India, the State cannot make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by this part and any law made in contravention of the clause. But the government is taking such decisions claiming it to be policy decision, he said adding that he will challenge them so as to see whether the government or the Constitution, is supreme.
Tamankar alleged that the PWD had failed to introduce Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) even after issuing Office Memorandum in November 2021. The government had decided to introduce AEBAS in order to bring discipline among the workers. He also charged that the Chief Minister’s official bungalow has been renovated without inviting tenders and that the PWD was denying him to furnish information sought under Right To Information (RTI) Act.
Tamankar, who is the intervener to the special leave petition before the Supreme Court challenging the award given by the Inter-State Mhadei Water Disputes Tribunal, demanded that the government should initiate action against the Supreme Court senior counsel for giving consent to the Tribunal to pass the award, to share Mhadei waters by the three riparian States.